Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:20:26 +0800
From: zHihaO <zhihao@root.sg>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: smtp proxy that takes in smtp auth?
i'm looking at this senario :
we have got a lot of clients in china who have problems connecting to
our servers locally. For some reasons unknown, traffic to our network
from china is being filtered by the government over there. So the ideal
solution i'm looking at is to have a server in china herself to act as a
proxy between the users there and the servers here since datacentre to
datacentre connection is so much better. Since we have got multiple smtp
servers for different clients, the proxy must be able to forward the
credentials between the users in china and the smtp servers here
locally. ideas anyone?
Let us assume that we have serverA.example.com outside China and
serverB.example.com inside China.
The MX records for example.com point to serverA. Mail is received for
<user@example.com>. The /etc/alias file (or LDAP or NIS or NIS+ or...)
on serverA points to
user: user@serverB.example.com (You need the same info on serverB!)
Sendmail (whatever MTA you want to use) then delivers the mail to
serverB. How you sync the files is up to you.
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
./zhihao
Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 07/07/06 12:29 +0800, zHihaO wrote:
does anyone knows of a good software that works like perdition, but for
SMTP? the ideal software will be a service running on port 25, listens
for smtp connections, takes in the email user id and password, forwards
the user credentials to the correct server based on a database lookup
and allows the user to send mail out.
Why not have all servers share the same user database? SMTP does not
need to access a single mailstore.
What is the scenario you are looking at?
Devdas Bhagat
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